January 2006
Yahoo! 360° - Computer Mediated Communication - The Robin Hood of Neopets [circa 2000]
by bcpbcpPossibly the most popular site for children on the web today is Neopets. If you have a sibling, niece, nephew, or grandchild that is connected to the net, you can just ask them and they’ll tell you ALL about this site, which built on success the Tamagotchi craze at the end of the 1990s: You adopt one or more virtual pets, collect objects for them, feed them, play with them, and try to help them advance and grow in several ways.
November 2005
Yahoo! 360° - Computer Mediated Communication - Yume : A 15 year quest completed
by bcpbcp (via)"15 years ago I traveled to Japan with my family as part of a Fujitsu marketing campaign for the Japanese version of Habitat, the first avatar virtual world. "
Habitat Chronicles: SOP II Presentation Slides
by bcpbcpSecondary Virtual Item Market implies Real World Value and that implies that it is Real World Property and, by extension, subject to real world property laws.
Habitat Chronicles
by bcpbcp (via)"In 1985 we began work on what would become one of the world's first multi-person graphical virtual worlds, and arguably the first of what are now awkwardly called "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games" (MMORPGs). Thus began a series of adventures in technology, business, and the online world which continue to this day. This site is where we tell our story: the things we learned, the mistakes we made, the people we met, a tale of human brilliance and folly and things you would never have imagined."
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